Ghislaine Maxwell

British socialite whose spectacular fall from grace ended in her being convicted as a sex trafficker of teenage girls. The youngest child of publishing tycoon and fraudster Robert Maxwell, she moved to the United States after her father's death in 1991 and became a close associate of financier and subsequently convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In 2021 Maxwell was found guilty of procuring and sexually trafficking underage girls as young as 14 for Epstein and others in the period 1994 to 2004.

Maxwell is a naturalised US citizen but retains citizenship of the UK and France.

Maxwell founded the ocean-advocacy group The TerraMar Project in 2012. The organisation announced closure on 12 July 2019, a week after the sex trafficking charges brought by New York federal prosecutors against Epstein became public.

On 2 July 2020, Maxwell was arrested by the FBI in Bradford, New Hampshire. She was later that day charged with six federal crimes, including enticement of minors, sex trafficking, and perjury.

In Manhattan, New York, late on the afternoon of 29 December 2021, she was convicted on five counts related to the sex trafficking of a child. On 28 June 2022, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of at least 30 years.